Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-08
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1887.
A Plea for Development


A Plen for Developments.
Quite correct is the view that the
greatest of all our endowments in
South California is the matchless eli
mate which attracts like a magnet
people from near and far. So long as
November days like yesterday shine
from cloudless skies; so long as genial
sunshine suffuses the brown autumnal
fields, and a temperature ranging
about the point of eighty degrees pre-
walls at season when the rigors of
Hyperborean winter already make
life a burden over two-thirds of the
territory of the American Uni,n, so
long will this section grow and
flourish as it now is, and as no other
region ever grew before. So long as
the extremes of heat and cold in all
sections, from the Bay Of Fundy to
the eastern slopes OF the Sierra
Nevada mountains, and from the
Gull of Mexico to Hudson's Bay,
engender malarial and pulmonary
diseases, while at the same
time u pure and vitalizing
current of ozone is waited from off the
immeasurable expanses of the Pacific
to the sunny uplands Of California,
30 long will all lines OF transportation
be strained to their utmost powers to
convey the great stream OF invalids
out OF the pestilential and miasmatic
airs ofthe super-healed summers ofthe
East, and away from the sharp and
biting winds of northern winters to
this land of perpetual summer, OF
pure, dry atmosphere, Of comfort, we'll
being and life.
The sun in his diurnal journey
around the revolving globe, Sunday
looked down on no such spot as Los
Angeles and her environs. As he
swept over other portions of our own
country on that morning he beheld
frostbitten people, wrapped in furs,
carefully gloved and mufied from the
nipping air of the morning, or in
driving rain and knee-deep mud,
cioaked, goloshed, umbrellaed, rush
ing and splashing on their way to
church. No other expedition could
be thought Of. 1t required a large
amount of piety to brace up the relig-
ious devotee to brave it all for his
dear soul's sake. Those who would
worship at the shrine Of pleasure had
no refuge from the ennui incident to
a stormy or cold day. Here the people
wandered where their fancy led. The
religiously inclined walked leisurely
to church in q blaze of heavenly light.
Those on pleasure bent drove from
"morn till dewy eve''-we had al
most written "a summers day."
to end the quotation, and it would |
hardly have been out of place.
Some went to the seashore, as if |
the month was August and not |
Novem ber, and ii they took plunge |
IN the surf they would not find that
elem ent less congenial than it was in |!
the height of summer.
Such development as comes from
these endowments OF our section will !
go on as they are going. No enter
prise is required to foster this into
being, or to nurse it into the most
robust strength. Like ''Topsy," this
does not need "bornin." 1t "iust
grows" But there is line of deyel-
Opment, which, although secondary
TO the one outlined above, is very inn
portant, and that does need fostering
care, energy, intelligence and close
attention. In climate we have no
rivalry to fear. In industries we have
the world to compete with on some
lines, the State to rival US on others.
It is true, in some respects,
cur industries are as match
less as Our climate, for
their success is based on this. South
California has been built up in the past
10 a very great extent on those very
industries in which we have to con-
end with the competition of the State
NJ of a wider field. While our health
living foothills, with their balmy air,
iraw to our gates the wealthy vale
tudinarian; the rich fertility OF our
broad plains, the profits of hus-
,andry, the gains of flocks and herds, |
,aye induced TO settle on our lands
thousands OF sturdy farmers, fruit
rowers and stockmen. We cannot
lzford to lose the vigorous influence
q this class. And VIC are in danger
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